3 gute Gründe warum
wir mehr erreichen!

Official press release - European Concrete Award 2018

Titel

EUROPEAN CONCRETE AWARD 2018 GOES TO AUSTRIA AND THE NETHERLANDS

Text

The object of the European Concrete Societies Network (ECSN) is to encourage cooperation
between Concrete Societies of eleven European countries and to promote the development of
concrete technology and use of concrete in Europe. One of the actions is the organizing of the EUROPEAN CONCRETE AWARD.
On the 1st of November more than 40 international delegates came to Helsinki to the award ceremony for the EUROPEAN CONCRETE AWARD 2018 during the Finish Concrete Day to pick up their prize.

The ECSN’s call for the submission of attractive projects both buildings and civil engineering resulted in 18 submissions -12 for the building category and 6 for the civil engineering category.
This year the participants came from Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.
The projects were evaluated against a set of criteria by an international jury.
Among those criteria are: design, construction, visual appearance and harmony of the structure with its surroundings, properties of concrete exploited in the design, innovative use of concrete in composition, structure or form, workmanship and finish.
Representatives of the owners, architects, structural engineers and contractors of the submitted projects came to Helsinki to receive the award.

In the category “Building” the EUROPEAN CONCRETE AWARD 2018 goes to the project “ÖAMTC MOBILITY CENTRE”, Austria.

Michael Pauser, managing director of the Austrian Society for Construction Technique,
as secretary of the ECSN congratulates the winner project team from Austria to such a load-bearing structure of the building has a number of specific features rarely encountered in such a density or combined in such a way.
In addition to these facts the whole project team worked with BIM.

Pauser speaks in high terms of the winner project team from the Netherlands, who went to the limit to realise a bridge as slender as possible and set with UHPC and the slenderness ratio 1:81 a new record in the Netherlands.